A mother has been arrested on child cruelty charges after allegedly making her 11-year-old son walk out of school naked.

According to Cobb County police, Joyce Sweetheart Cole was called to her son’s school in Cobb County, Georgia, in October because her son was in trouble after allegedly bullying a girl. As punishment, she made her son go to school without shoes, police said.

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Police said that about a month later, the boy and girl agreed to trade candy for a juice box. But when the girl didn’t keep up her end of the bargain, that’s when the boy allegedly kicked her. He was sent to the principal’s office, police said.

Cole was called to the school. That’s when police said she made her son take off his clothes, and walk naked from the school to her car.

Shortly before getting home, the victim told police she stopped the car outside the apartment complex and made him walk home naked, according to police. Police said the mother told them she made him walk home in just his underwear.

Cole was charged with child cruelty and bonded out of jail the same day she was arrested.